Author: Ron Koertge

When I’m between books, I almost always write poetry. I write it during books, too, but it isn’t the same thing. Poetry doesn’t always like playing second fiddle. Poetry can be, as Billy Collins said in another...

When I’m between novels like I am now, I always write poetry. Usually, I try the hard forms. Not because I’m so good at the so-called easier ones (free verse, for instance) but because my free verse is so close to my...

I know, I know. I’ve been AWOL. But I have an excuse. My wife broke a little bone in her foot recently, so I’m driving and picking up and shopping, etc. It’s a vertical break and a clean one, not horizontal and...

if, indeed, my last post was yang. I’m thinking back week or ten days ago to the one about the break-out novel (Someone already wittily suggested fictive acne.) Mostly I complained about being prodded to write what would...

I’m just back from Palm Springs and a little gig at a library. Some sixth graders had read the second of the Shakespeare novels-in-verse (mine, not Will’s) and had some questions and comments. Mostly they said the...